Verbit Raises USD 60m Series C to Fund AI Agency Strategy and M&A
Transcription and captioning provider Verbit raises a whopping USD 60 million in Series C from Sapphire to fund tech development but also growth via acquisition. Continue reading
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Braahmam Partners with Mediawen to Provide AI-Powered Transcription and Subtitling Services
The collaboration will help the two companies deliver automated, high-quality transcription and subtitling for multimedia content. Continue reading
Australian LSP Ai-Media Targets USD 125m Market Cap in Sydney IPO
Australian language service provider Ai-Media has reportedly begun roadshowing with investors for an IPO scheduled mid-September 2020. Continue reading
Largely Unaffected by Covid, Appen Maintains 2020 Guidance
Australia-listed data annotation provider Appen shares Covid-19 update and guides investors on 2020 profit expectations. Continue reading
Language Insight Appoints Strategic Director to Continue Growth and Expansion
2019 Queen’s Award winner Language Insight appoint Federica Meacci as Strategic Director in order to continue their rapid rate of growth and expansion. Continue reading
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Tarjama Launches its Digital Platform for Online-Translation, Transcription and Content Creation Services
Clients can now request translation, content creation and transcription services faster and easier, with flexible turnaround times and at competitive rates. Continue reading
‘Translation Agencies Are Cancelling My Contracts’ — California’s AB5 Bill Starts to Bite
Days before California’s gig worker bill takes effect, journalists and photographers sue state. American Translators Association doubles down in fight to exempt translators and interpreters. Continue reading
Reader Polls: Rev Pay Cut, Shift to Hourly Rates, Edit Distance, Translation Regulations
LSPs moving toward hourly rates for linguists? Edit distance a viable metric long-term? Are regulations important to translation demand? Will Rev recover from bad press over transcriptionist pay cuts? Continue reading
Machine Translation and ASR Provider AppTek Buys Speech Tech Firm Ignite-Tek
MT and speech recognition company AppTek expands natural language understanding (NLU) capabilities with acquisition of speech technology provider Ignite-Tek. Continue reading
Transcription Provider Rev.com Battles Media Firestorm After Freelancer Rate Cut
Rev cast as gig economy villain over sudden, poorly communicated rate cut for freelancers. Saga may serve as cautionary tale for translation startups. Continue reading
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UN to Host Bake-Off for Remote Interpreting Platforms, NMT, Speech-to-Text
UN asks vendors to pitch solutions for remote interpreting, neural machine translation, speech-to-text, etc. to secure one of 25 spots at January 2020 conferencing tech fair in Geneva. Continue reading
Here’s How Appen Collects the Language Data So Central to AI
Appen CEO, Mark Brayan, speaks at SlatorCon San Francisco 2019 on the expensive, complex, and crucial process of collecting language data for AI. Continue reading
Google Resumes Human Transcription of Assistant Audio Content
Google touts new data privacy protections for its transcription programs, which were suspended after a reviewer leaked confidential Dutch audio in July 2019. Continue reading
Machine Translation Largely MIA at Google I/O and Microsoft Build 2019
Google I/O and Microsoft Build 2019 were short on big language tech reveals, although relevant announcements and previews were sprinkled throughout both events. Continue reading
Automated Transcription Provider Trint Secures USD 4.5m in Series A
AI-based transcription provider Trint has increased its total funding raised to USD 7.8m, with the unique twist of adding NMT into its platform to allow multilingual content distribution. Continue reading
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